Netflix are not mentioned in the copyright information on the TiVo, whereas pretty much everybody that can be mentioned has been. This suggests to me that there is no Netflix component running on the TiVo itself and that they are streaming data over HME.

I'm just guessing though. But if it is using HME, I would be surprised if the network traffic to control the streaming was encrypted. I would only expect the video itself to be encrypted.

I don't have a Netflix account, so I cannot volunteer with a packet sniffer.

TiVo routinely uses HME over SSL, even for stuff that seems pointless to hide, much less stuff that they actively want to hide; so yes, it's encrypted.

HME per se doesn't stream anything. We send a command to the TiVo, with a URL, and it fetches the material "behind the scenes". As it does so, it sends back status reports every so often -- where it is in the stream, what rate it's playing at. At the same time, we can send commands -- pause, speed up, etc.

Now, in Streambaby, the TiVo ends up making its http request right back to the same server that's running the HME front-end. But handling that request is technically outside the scope of HME. (It's just a standard http request, like you'd make to download a file.)

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Well that sucks, but is very interesting. I had this vision of the HME commands being intertwined with the encrypted video, making it difficult (but eventually possible) to decipher the command set. But if the HME calls are encrypted on a separate connection, I see rebuffering being a workaround in Streambaby for a long time to come.

Have given streambaby a try. No problems installing, messages indicate it is running, but it does not show up on my Tivo (under music, photos ...). Have tried changing video directory, ports, and IP, but no joy.

Have given streambaby a try. No problems installing, messages indicate it is running, but it does not show up on my Tivo (under music, photos ...). Have tried changing video directory, ports, and IP, but no joy.

I'm having problems getting it to work too. Dled and configured it, got the latest version of Java. Mine shows its ready on the PC, and appears in the tivo menu, but when I click the option I usually just get a please wait screen for a couple of minutes, then the 50005 connection error. A couple of times it has pulled up my videos folder, but when I press play I get about a second of video, then it crashes and the PC shows the connection has been reset. I'm not real literate with this stuff, so if anyone has ideas for me to try I would very much appreciate them. Also, if there's a resource where there's troubleshooting info I would love to know about it.

I liked the idea of SB because I've read the TIVO desktop is a bit of a resource hog on a PC, and I just want to occasionally be able to stream a movie or TV show from my computer.

For vids longer than 1 hr, why not just have them pushed and start watching a few minutes later when the buffer has built up? Seems to work for most .mp4s I have tried.

For the HD videos I am using in MP4 format, 8K bitrates, they will stream fine, just a bit faster than live. But when pushed they transfer a LOT slower than real time. Not sure why that is the case but it is for me at least.

Also one of my Tivo's is on the test servers so I can not push content to it at the moment.

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Obvious question: is your machine's IP address 192.168.1.7? is port 7290 already taken by another program?

The ffmpeg warning is because you don't have the shared libs set up right (although I'm assuming you don't care).

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Okay, I'm officially an idiot. All this time I thought I'd assigned that computer the address 192.168.1.7; but it's actually 192.168.1.2 - that was the issue.

However that does bring up another (academic) problem - why did it work with the latest release (0.27), since the wrong IP was in that streambaby.ini as well? It seems like both should've been broken, or both should've worked.

However that does bring up another (academic) problem - why did it work with the latest release (0.27), since the wrong IP was in that streambaby.ini as well? It seems like both should've been broken, or both should've worked.

There was a bug in streambaby that caused it to not bind correctly to the IP address specified in the INI file. The last couple of SVN versions fix this problem. (It's not quite as simple as this, as having the ip= line in the INI in old versions did affect the binding, just not in the correct way...)

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My problem is an mkv file with subtitles *below* the video, inside the bottom black bar. If I play the video in WMP or VLC, I can see the subtitles, but when I play it on the Tivo using Streambaby the subtitles aren't visible. It seems like Streambaby is zooming in on just the video, and leaving out the black bars (and the subtitles).

I'm using version 027 and have tried the Tivo Ratio button and different TV settings, but none of that works. Any ideas?

There was a bug in streambaby that caused it to not bind correctly to the IP address specified in the INI file. The last couple of SVN versions fix this problem. (It's not quite as simple as this, as having the ip= line in the INI in old versions did affect the binding, just not in the correct way...)

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edit: ah, looks like I am having the "codec frame rate differs from container frame rate" problem reported earlier in this thread (back in March). Lowering the quality works around the problem and the file plays. Was there ever a solution discovered for this?

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edit: ah, looks like I am having the "codec frame rate differs from container frame rate" problem reported earlier in this thread (back in March). Lowering the quality works around the problem and the file plays. Was there ever a solution discovered for this?

What I do is remux the MP4. Use MP4Box to extract the raw audio and video streams and remux. That way the container will be recreated. I have to do this with several tools that create the MP4 container is some manner that StreamBaby (Or the TiVo) does not like. This may fix your issue.

edit: ah, looks like I am having the "codec frame rate differs from container frame rate" problem reported earlier in this thread (back in March). Lowering the quality works around the problem and the file plays. Was there ever a solution discovered for this?

MP4's created by HandBrake don't seem to have this issue. (Windows system).

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What I do is remux the MP4. Use MP4Box to extract the raw audio and video streams and remux. That way the container will be recreated. I have to do this with several tools that create the MP4 container is some manner that StreamBaby (Or the TiVo) does not like. This may fix your issue.

Ugh ... earlier this year I converted all of my videos and DVDs into MP4 using WinFF. These used to play just fine through streambaby, but with a different version of ffmpeg I guess. It would be quite a lot of work to re-mux those.

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Ugh ... earlier this year I converted all of my videos and DVDs into MP4 using WinFF. These used to play just fine through streambaby, but with a different version of ffmpeg I guess. It would be quite a lot of work to re-mux those.

MP4 shouldn't need ffmpeg to do anything except generate previews (which even if it doesn't work shouldn't cause errors), so I don't think that is going to be the problem...

Do these videos work with an older version of streambaby? (Say V0.25 which uses different MP4 splitting code) Which version are you currently running?

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